950 BUBEAIT OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 40 



oUAla'teya under o'peya among 



o'p^ta across o'lia"^ among 



ogAna' in (a stream) 

 kici' WITH or together (see § 20, p. 914) is also used as a post-position; 

 while the suffix -I (see § 41. 4) appears in that r61e after f i lodge; as, 

 t'il into the lodge 

 From ni'caTO be destitute of is formed the post-position wani'ca 



WITHOUT. 



§ 47. Interjections: Teton 



ho is introduced when there comes a change in the thread of the 

 narrative, and so may be said to mark a paragraph. The following 

 are used quite frequently in Teton: 



Wo' suppose! ku^he' alas! 



iho' well! howo' now! 



yxi^ oh! (indicating pain) wa'^ now! why! 



For a long list of Dakota interjections, see Riggs's Dakota Gram- 

 mar, p. 54. 



§48. VOCABULARY: Teton 



The simplicity of grammatical forms in Dakota is necessarily accom- 

 panied by the use of great numbers of stems. 



Verb-stems usually consist of single syllables such as the following: 



t^ i to dwell w™ to live, or be accustomed to 



ya to say ya to go 



Icte to kill p\i to flee 



hi to arrive coming i to arrive going 



ha to have, possess si to command 



zi^ to stand p^so'^ to break off 



k'sa'^ to bend ni to live, exist 



ta to eat j)''ta to answer 



lid to dig Jcsa to break 



u to be on route coming gi to rust 



to'^ to cover o to wound 



The stems with terminal a have been treated in § 15. 

 The causative ya may be placed after any of these, as also after 

 nouns. 



Upaya'pi they were caused to lie 

 haki' syajpi they made him suffer 

 waste' ya to cause to be good 



§§ 47, 48 



